From the Tables... ~Attack on Sulaco~

Played a 1,500 point Spearhead Annihilation v. Kings' Mantis Warriors...

In 943.M41 a Mantis Warrior Strike Force under the command of First Company Captain Hoenir encountered the Tyranid Splinter Fleet known as Chupacabra. The Tyranids were engaged in an assault on the Civilized world of Sulaco, but had not yet defeated the local PDF. The Chapter still remembered the sting of the loss it suffered to this same group of Tyranids on the planet Durjah in 935.M41. Captain Hoenir himself led a force onto the planets surface. There they took up defense in the ruins of the city Mansolos and awaited the Swarm.

Kings reserved a large portion of his army and I was able to Infiltrate pretty close with the Genestealers. The Tactical Squad below moved onto the board, but failed to do much damage to the Genestealers, even though they were rapid-firing.

So both Genestealer units got off a Turn 2 charge...

The Doom came down into the heart of his deployment zone via Mycetic Spore and was a big headache for Kings all game.

The Genestealers meet up with the Doom after they finish off Kings first Terminator unit...

My play on his backfield probably would have won me the game if his Devastator unit hadn't so effectively pinned down my Monstrous Creature force. As it was, Hoenir (Sicarius), delivered his Coup de Gras attack on the Doom, insta-killing him, and securing Kings a 1 KP victory.

From the Tables... ~The Aratusian Exception~

Played an 1850 Capture and Control v. Kings' Mantis Warriors....

In 998.M41 the Lamenters force known as Strike Force Ostro, led by the mad Epistolary Menoloth, encountered a Mantis Warriors Strike Force while on crusade. The Mantis Warriors were in the midst of their own Pentinent Crusade, and they parlayed on the world of Aratusia IV. While the leader of the Mantis Warriors, Captain Mantodea, had expected to meet a noble and proud Space Marine leader, he instead met with the dark and twisted Menoloth, the man known as the 'Lost One'. Upon observing the Lamenters blade, the daemon sword Walach, Mantodea immediately took exception, and ordered attack on his brethren. What followed was an unexpected and bloody conflict in which the Lamenters routed their estranged brothers in arms.

Devastator Squad Vigo claimed a high vantage point for the battle. In the battles waning moments their krak missles laid low the noble Captain Mantodea.

Ancient Tyrus arrived on the battle via the Stormraven 'Heavenfall', which wrecked a Mantis Warrior Rhino with its missles as it arrived.

Menoloth slaughtered the occupants of the Rhino, while
Ancient Tyrus saw off the Assault Terminators

Assault Squad Volare secured the enemy supply dump and won the battle.

From the Tables... The Fall of Durjah

Played an 1850 Seize Ground (4 objectives) against Kings' Mantis Warriors...

The arid Administratum world of Durjah fell under attack by the Tyranids in 935.M41. The Splinter fleet, dubbed Chupacabra, had arrived from above the galactic plane. Summoned by an astropathic relay, the Mantis Warriors, on crusade in a nearby system, arrived in 936.M41. By that time all of the scriveners and adepts of the world had been consumed and the Tyranids had begun consuming the world itself. Rather than cede the world to the xenos, Captain Mantodea took a Strike Force to the surface. They engaged a force of large Tyranid creatures in the city of Xerul.

The Terminators and Captain Mantodea assault the xenos...

...many are laid low...

The Mawloc consumes eleven Battle Brothers...

The Tyranids secure their land...

The Tyranids spawn wave after wave of Gaunts, and only a handful
of Mantis Warriors escape the surface...

Kings' Ratlings

So my buddy painted up these cool new Ratling models for his IG army. I thought I'd share...